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    Sunday, August 17, 2008

    Carr Bomb


    FSU Sports Information Excerpts:

    The first full scrimmage of the pre-season was a typical first scrimmage. There were highlights and lowlights on both sides of the ball and all four of Florida State’s quarterbacks kept the pressure on one another. The only touchdown of the day came on the biggest play of the afternoon as Drew Weatherford connected with Greg Carr on a 61 yard bomb. Carr led the receivers with 101 yards on two catches, Antone Smith was the leader among the backs with 47 yards on the ground and FSU’s three returning QB’s all had over 80 yards passing.

    STATS
    Quarterbacks
    E.J. Manuel: 3-for-4, 57 yards; 2 first downs
    Christian Ponder: 6-for-11, 104 yards; 3 first downs, sacked three times, fumble, FR
    D’Vontrey Richardson: 5-for-10, 81 yards; 2 first downs, sacked three times, fumble
    Drew Weatherford: 4-for-8, 91 yards, TD, INT; 3 first downs, sacked once, fumble, FR

    Rushing Stats

    EJ Manuel: 2 rushes, 9 yards; first down
    Antone Smith: 5 rushes, 47 yards; two first downs
    Christian Ponder: 4 rushes, -22 yards
    Brandon Paul: 3 rushes, 6 yards
    D’Vontrey Richardson: 6 rushes, -19 yards; first down
    Drew Weatherford: 3 rushes, -3 yards
    Carlton Jones: 8 rushes, 33 yards; first down
    Marcus Sims: 1 rush, 9 yards

    Receiving Stats
    Corey Surrency: 1 catch, 37 yards
    Preston Parker: 1 catch, 7 yards
    Antone Smith: 2 catches, 11 yards
    Avis Commack: 2 catches, 28 yards
    Louis Givens: 1 catch, 6 yards
    Greg Carr: 2 catches, 101 yards, TD
    Marcus Sims: 1 catch, 20 yards
    Jarmon Fortson: 2 catches, 67 yards
    Bert Reed: 3 catches, 19 yards
    Rod Owens: 3 catches, 26 yards

    Defense
    Benjamin Lampkin – 2 sacks
    Ochuko Jenije – 1 PBU
    Vince Williams – 1 fumble recovery, TFL, 4 tackles
    Jamie Robinson – 4 tackles
    Darius McClure – 3 tackles
    Michael Ray Garvin – 3 tackles
    Derek Nicholson – 3 tackles
    Nick Moody – 3 tackles
    Everette Brown – 3 tackles
    7 total sacks by the defense

    Head Coach Bobby Bowden:
    “Had a pretty good scrimmage. I don’t think we had any serious injuries, I’m sure we got some bruises out there. But both groups had a good time. It’s wasn’t like one of them got the first out of the other. One of them didn’t dominate. I mean offense got their share; defense like they got their share. Offense had too many, I think they had three fumbles. They fumbled on a fourth-and-one and fumbled on the third-and-one, you can’t do that. Had a couple of interceptions; good plays by the defense, it’s pretty good. We came out this morning to work on the kicking day. Worked on the kickoffs, worked on the field goals, worked on punting. We really had a good day of it. Thought it was not a bad first scrimmage. The kids held up pretty good. It did get hot out there today.”

    On the problems in the red zone:
    “The fumble exchanges killed us a couple times; fourth-and-one and a third-and-one. Tough in the red zone, that’s where we’ve got to get better, we’re working a lot on it, but we hope to get better. We’ll keep working on it then there are some things offense didn’t run down there that I thought would have been real good against goal line defense but then they wanted to look at something else. Sometimes you’re wanting to look at certain plays under certain circumstances that might not be the best. I think we can solve that.”

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